"Three Houses By Frank Lloyd Wright"

La Miniature

A group of concrete boxes tiled with crosses inside squares and overshadowed by tal sparse trees. A birch stands in front, blocking the stairs to the entrance and framed on the ground by a slate walk way and green ivy ground cover. It’s residents should be encased in marble tombs. they live in a mausoleum that inspires solemn faces on black-robed mourners, and guarded for eternity by a lion-shaped Chinese gargoyle lounging on the front step.


Friedman House

Round curving walls of gray odd shaped stone blocks. Suspended over the walls are gray flying saucer roofs. Hadrian’s Wall twisted into a house surrounded by bare limbs on winter trees and covered by the Orson Welles invasion. Blue-faced Celts will stream over the walls to battle the green bug eyed aliens with claymores and stone tipped spears. Green and red blood will mix with a swirl of blue paint, immortalizing the battle of the impossible in the Louvre. 


Freeman House

Some squares are chipped and cracked, but others are cut-out designs, a square sided by three smaller squares and a narrow stalk holding up a tulip shield of the knights. Spider grass grows in the corner, stalking down the Aztec temple of sacrifice and, untended, feeds on the gods’ red sticky food; it will cover the evidence of a past life with green blades and fibrous clinging roots. Just walking from the bathroom to the kitchen, your feet will crunch ancient bones to powder in the search for supernatural gold.

Previously published in Transformations: A Journal of Art and Letters, 2005